Date: Fri, 5 Jun 1998 12:29:51 -0400 (EDT) From: Adrian Filipi-Martin <adrian@nvl.virginia.edu> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: Jack Velte <jackv@earthling.net>, freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "Linux is UNIX, and FreeBSD is not?" Message-ID: <Pine.HPP.3.96.980605122754.10203H-100000@huron.nvl.virginia.edu> In-Reply-To: <19980605095731.P768@freebie.lemis.com>
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On Fri, 5 Jun 1998, Greg Lehey wrote: > On Thu, 4 June 1998 at 14:02:12 -0700, Jack Velte wrote: > >> On Thu, 4 Jun 1998, Oliver Fromme wrote: > >> > >>>> From a technical point of view, I'd say that FreeBSD is > >>> certainly more "unixish" than Linux, given the fact that it > >>> is derived from 4.4BSD, while Linux is basically a complete > >>> rewrite (and besides: it is GNU, and "GNU's Not UNIX" ;-). > >>> Needless to say, I'm worried that one day Linux can be > >>> legally called a UNIX system, while FreeBSD (still) cannot. > > > > is anyone working on this issue? did i hear someone > > volunteer jordan? uh. would someone else like to > > work on it? > > We discussed this a while back. We decided that UNIX 98% validation > was counterproductive. Counterproductive because it would drain away from primary development, or was there another reason? While the standards are kind of bogus in most respects, they have their advantages. Adrian -- adrian@virginia.edu ---->>>>| If I were stranded on a desert island, and System Administrator --->>>| I could only have one OS for my computer, Neurosurgical Visualization Lab ->>| it would be FreeBSD. Think about it..... http://www.nvl.virginia.edu/ ->| http://www.freebsd.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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